Depression Part 1 and Intro

I’ve been wanting to put together very long-researched post on how and whether antidepressants work, their mechanisms of action, and theories of clinical depression.  However, this post is going to be LONG, and unreadably so, so instead I’m going to start with little background tidbits: depression etiology, symptoms, etc (post 1).   Types of antidepressants, and what differentiates them from each other (post 2), how scientists study depression (post 3) the serotonin hypothesis of depression (post 4), the BDNF hypothesis of depression (post 5), and how the two interact in the most recent hypothesis of depression and how antidepressants function (post 6).  Obviously this is a pretty significant writing up of information, and there will probably be some other posts (such as weird science and classic science) interspersed with them.  But people are interested, depression is big right now, and here it goes:

Tangled Bank Is Up!

I got a post into the 107th edition of Tangled Bank, which is up at Syaffolee!  Check it out!  Lots of cool science, including studies on how big raindrops are, historical contigency in evolution (a new REALLY big finding in E. coli), and my own post on Angiotensin-(1-7)!